Birthday festivities continue...

Since today Is Alianna's actual birthday and it is also a day ArJay actually has off, we decided to have a little outing and invited Aunt Candice( who had to work during the party) and Aunt-in-law(?) Tania and little Sadie to the zoo with us. All morning long she kept telling me "enmoles". I thought she was saying Elmo but as soon as we got to the zoo and she started screaming it I realized she was excited about the animals.


Right here we were staring right at the polar bear. I think it must have been a little too exciting for her because right after this shot she peed all over herself( although she had already peed all over when we first got there.) Apparently it was a little too much excitement because she also peed all over herself when we got to McDonalds play place for lunch. And the potty training was really starting to make improvements....sigh....note to self, no exciting outings with very few bathrooms when potty training.

After naps, we decided to go on the maiden voyage of the bike. She had ridden it around the living room but not out on the street. I don't think I can convey how adorable she looked in her huge helmet and knee pads as she said "WEEEEE! RIDE!WEEE!" Up and down the neighborhood streets. All and all an awesome day....except for all the pee.

Alianna turns two!

Yesterday we had Alianna's birthday party. It was a lot of fun despite some obstacles we faced that we worying me a little including: not very successful dive into potty training that week, Alianna was sick, and of course we showed up at the park(which you can't reserve) to find a lady sitting at our pavilion were we already had stuff up and the grass soaking wet because they are re-seeding. Luckily it all worked out. She went potty before we left( although it was in her pants, at least it wasn't at the park!), she only had a man voice from losing her voice and was not sick, the lady said she was just waiting for her tent and her party wasn't until later, and we just didn't do the field games and played on the playground again.We had all her favorite people there minus a few sickies, even grandma and popa weir and uncle Mitch were able to drive over to join us.

We had yummy lots of yummy food. I went a little crazy with the cute minnie red polka dots and even cut sandwiches into mickey heads.

This is my first attempt at Marshmallow Fondant. Please do not laugh. I saw this a while back on So you think you're crafty and got ambitious thinking I could re-create it. The head is a half of the soccer bowl Wilton cake pan and the ears are sugar cookies in case any of you were scratching your heads.
She is one spoiled/lucky little girl with all the amazing presents she got. Apparently everyone has her pegged because everything was princesses, Minnie, or coloring and she couldn't be more thrilled! We got Alianna a trike with the handle in back so when she gets bored pedaling, or doesn't even start, we can still go for a "bike ride"/walk.She was pretty excited about it because everytime we go to the store she spots the bikes across the store and tries to take them home. The bottom is a shot of most of the kids chowing down, Thanks for coming guys we had a blast! Or and thanks a lot for the belly shot of the two preggo girls Dad, it's really flattering. ( FOr those of you wanting to laugh at me, I'm the belly in red.)

It's a.......

Arm! Ok OK I know, that was mean. But that was how we felt during the whole appointment today. The tech kept showing us all these appendages. Honestly after she told us the heart and brain looked good, we were just anxious to find out what it was. It didn't help that Alianna was screaming bloody murder because she thought the tech was hurting me.Although it amazes me what they can see with technology, check out that profile shot.
Arjay says it looks like Alianna's nose. OK soo drumroll...

IT'S A BOY!!

ANd since I'm sure you'll all ask, yes we're pretty dang sure. He wasn't too shy. Check out that shot ! (ArJay couldn't be prouder, he's strutting around like a peacock)

It actually didn't really come as much of a shock, we've felt it was a boy for a while. We are super excited though! My family is a girl(me) then and boy and ArJay's family is a girl then a boy(him) so I guess we are just keeping the tradition alive. ArJay had to stop on our way home at Bookman's and buy his boy a HeMan DVD he saw a couple of weeks ago. I think I should be worried that he's going to buy his "boy" lots of fun toys....

Cinderella here we come!

It's finished! WOOHOO! Here's me doing a little peanuts happy dance. I finished Alianna's Cinderella dress tonight good thing since we leave for Disneyland Monday. I do not know why this thing gave me such grief. Well, I know one reason, it was from a pattern. Patterns and me, we're not friends. They don't explain themselves very well and their visual aids are even more confusing. Give me a blog tutorial or let me make it up and I'm good. In fact I made a couple of halloween skirts and other items to take breaks from this bad boy because I was so frustrated when I broke a needle on the crazy gathers. I don't know why I worried so much, Alianna nearly peed her pants and jumped around in giddy excitment yelling "LELLA LELLA" and even gave herslef a twirl in front of the mirror. So here it is in all it's glory.(I swear it looks cuter on, it's hard to get all the gathering to lay right when it's flat on a table.)



And since we are going to be at Disneyland for two days, I had to make another outfit right? And since Alianna's other all-time favorite is Minnie and we already had the ears from Grandma, the material in my stash and the white shirt and leggings in her clothes, this one cost a grand total of $0 and seriously maybe took an hour. Of course I stil see lots of flaws, but Alianna loves it. She saw it in her closet this week and had to wear it and only took it off for bath time.

Note to self: Only make clothes for cute 2 year olds and never worry about perfection again.

I know it's October but c'mon...

We have had some..interesting nights with Alianna the last 3 nights. Some of them even creeped me out a bit. Just as a preface, Alianna has been in her princess toddler bed for over a month and it has been really great transition. She was staying in from night one except for when she'd end up on the floor in her sleep because she's such a crazy sleeper. ;0)

Night one: About 5 am I wake up because I think I hear a door close. In my drowsy state, I think I must have imagined it but sit up and look around just in case Alianna did it( remember that she NEVER left her room). As I lay back down I see a tiny face standing right next to my head! I seriously nearly peed my pants. She must have been super sneaky because I sat up as soon as soon as I heard the door and did not hear or see her come around my bed at all. She just looked at me like I was crazy and 2 year old's sneak around super stealthy like to scare the beegeezes out of their mom's all time time and says, in a slow voice like I'm crazy "Hi Mom."

Night two: At 4:45 I sit up because I think I hear something and I am still paranoid after my creeper scary movie child episode the day before. I sat up for a few minutes not hearing anything. Then I hear the fan, that is on ArJay's side of the bed go off. I look over and my sneaky little culprit is at it again. I didn't even know she knew how to turn off the fan. So I use my commanding Mom voice and so "Alianna Mae stop that!" which inadvertently wakes ArJay up in a total state of confusion. I'm pretty sure he thought I was just talking in my sleep at first(which I have a tendency to do)

Night three: 2:30 am I hear Alianna crying.Miraclously she stayed in her room, I'm thinking she was so confused she didn't actually know where the door was because when I came in she is looking around like a rat trapped in a maze. Once the door is open she makes a beeline for it screaming "Jeeew, Jeew"( translation: juice) I'm still pretty sure she's half asleep but hse's heading for the stairs so I cut her off and tell her I'll get some. It msut have computed because she stopped her mad dash. I go grab a sippy cup and find her back in her bed. I think I'll slip out but she sits up and cries jeew again. I hand it to her and she lays down. 2 seconds later she's crying again and starts over the "Jeew" pursuit as I try to explain to the half awake child that she has one. At this point, I realize I gave her the cup that's hard to suck out of, go get a new one, sit her up and she chugs it. As soon as it's done she goes"YUMMY!" and literally falls back against her pillow dead asleep. I'm still not convinced she was really awake for the whole episode...but then neither was I at 2:30am.

So does anyone else ever have their kids creep then out in their sleep sometimes or is it just mine?

Candy Corn Wreath

What do you get when you have a dollar store wreath, candy corn,hot glue, and a pregnant woman with a recent penchant for all things crafty? A cute quick wreath for the front door.

Those who have been to my house recently will remember that I did have a witch on the front door, but I saw this on the cover of a magazine today at the grocery store and thought it was cuter and I could re-create it easily.

Plus, can you really have too many cute Halloween decorations?

Girl Time!

I need to preface this by saying that we love all the boy cousins and friends Alianna plays with. Today we actually had girl time with my friend Lori's daughter Adelaide. At first, I'm not sure Alianna knew what to do with a girl but she sure figured it out! We put on some music and sweet little Adelaide came running over to grab Alianna's hand to dance.


Soon they were giggling so hard they were falling over each other more than dancing which of course turned into a marathon course of Ring around the Rosies much to my( ie the song caller who had to sing it about 50 thousand times) chagrin.



Then Alianna got out the horses and they galloped around the room. Alianna noticed I had the camera out by now and galloped around going "CHEESE!"


We ended off our morning as any good girl time does, playing dress up. Adelaide informed us we were all wearing birthday hats and Alianna decided they were both "ba-ba bells"( Tinkerbells).
Needless to say, it was a blast. I think it was the first time Alianna has ever had uninterrupted girl time and she thought it was the coolest thing. I think I better apologize in advance in case she tries to dress up her boy cousins or Dallin the next time she sees them...